Der Holle Rache (Luciana Serra)

Performance of Die Zauberflote at the Met. Luciana Serra as Queen of the Night, Kathleen Battle as Pamina

[@palmarolavlklingholm9684]

The best version I have ever heard. But then I know next to nothing about opera. Still, to me, this sounds perfect.

[@ioannageor180]

She has a great note foundation, diaphragmatic breathing to the maximum and she utilizes the gnaw to reach higher notes. So you are right she is great ,one of the best for me , I also like Diana Damrau as well. They are both really great

[@katarzynahamkao2696]

Perfect technique. Outstanding.

[@miuzefreak]

hey, that s what I think too! : ) I ve been saying that for years!

[@80Mrmirko]

It’s true the best one

[@rudyfan1926]

I saw her sing this role in San Francisco and she was amazing. Spectacular vocal fireworks and flawless technique. Her Gilda in Rigoletto with Ingvar Wixell was also splendid.

[@osqariin1]

how lucky!!!

[@amesavis]

powerful, and so beautiful.

[@bellezzadelfiorebellezzade5554]

Tutte le artiste di grandezza , sono brave ma lei con quella coloratura, è perfetta, lei è la vera Regina della notte di Mozart💪💪

[@gabrieleruffini4884]

Luciana Serra is a Goddess of singing and having seen her several times on stage I can say that recordings do not reproduce the fullness of harmonics of her voice that even if not big was capable to fill with her vibration the space of big theatres like as those of London or Rome. Anyway her coloratura is astonishing.

[@Denisse1991-]

Amo cada sonido que sale de la boca de esa mujer jajaja ok eso suena raro pero amo AMO como canta, ella no es de este mundo, parece un ser supremo con esa forma tan excelente de cantar y esa técnica que topa la perfección.

[@alarimacias9620]

02:43 la más bella interpretación del mundo ❤

[@lobatoborrego]

2:43 😍

[@miuzefreak]

THAT has got to be the most difficult part, I think!?!

[@salstiha]

Greatest! Perfect Queen of the Night. Ex aequo Edda Moser.

[@pauloisabel6073]

A Luciana é fantástica. Reparem na clareza inigualável dos staccatos. Tenho visto muito e bem mas nada parecido.

[@mobina616]

Hearing her voice felt like going to the forest and listen to the sound of nightingales, I've been looking for a version of "queen of the night" aria as this one for a few weeks😍 Thanks

[@blameitoncapitalism]

I absolutely LOVE Luciana but I just think her voice is just too sweet to play the Queen of the Night. I mean her technique is flawless, her voice is as always inhumanly perfect and she sounds mesmerizingly beautiful and pleasant, don't get me wrong. But she just doesnt give me that "crazy evil queen who urges her daughter to kill a man or she will disown her and hate her forever" vibe, you know. her voice is smooth, light and sweet, even here. idk, just feel like thats not the right role for her to interpret.

[@meropale]

I disagree. She definitely gives off "crazy evil queen" vibes. The music is sweet, her voice not so much and it is quite forceful.

[@ottopasser923]

Like Diana Damrau, she does ❤️

[@luceafarul579]

Mozart always need a lighter bright voice for the high sopranos, because Mozart has 5-7 voices (soprano-many times a high and a lower soubrette, mezzo, tenor, baritone-sometimes a baritone and a bass baritone, and bass), too dark would fall into the mezzo voice category. It’s not like 19th century bel canto where the voices are required to cover a greater range so you only have three voices-soprano, tenor, and baritone, that’s it. So you can have a darker more dramatic voice to cover those ranges, like Maria Callas. Mozart used more stringent classical harmonious theory so too dark a voice for a soprano would not harmonize well, amongst other things.

[@Асия-и5в]

He wrote it describing his mother in low. Heartless with metal in voice. Crystal non human voice. Luciana did it the best!

[@miuzefreak]

@@Асия-и5в thank you so much for that comment. I think the same. we re right! LOL

[@jorgelp1641]

ella es la mejor de todas las que la han interpretado

[@ggs106]

kzbin.info/www/bejne/pnW4qnRjm7ucm5o

[@sergiosanchezsanchez8712]

Luciana Serra, maravillosa si.Pero por favor hay que escuchar a la aún más prodigiosa, Roberta Peters.🙏

[@harvysoza1334]

Y Cristina Deutekom también

[@michelsf11]

Best Queen of the Night Aria , Bravo Luciana !!! ...

[@miuzefreak]

yeeeeesss! that s what I think! hehe

[@jakob_k001]

She's underrated.

[@nettiegurl]

No she was off on many notes

[@jugo4590]

@@nettiegurl Can you do it?😍😍😍

[@nettiegurl]

@@jugo4590 I have, yes. During private voice, and a conductor rehearsal. And that's beside the point. Trained ears know when a pitch is off. Doesn't mean the performer is bad. Just that a note or two was off a bit. It happens.

[@ben-hurjudha3648]

​@@nettiegurlI heard famous soprano in this role, Moser, Deutekom,Serra they pass small notes before F , but Diana and Joan Sutherland did it every small notes ...even Joan's singing is not suite for all notes

[@HuntressWizard-m1m]

Everything about this production is just stellar. This was performed in 1991, I believe.

[@israeldavila7545]

Una diosa de la coloratura!.

[@laanagourevich9641]

So wonderful and beautiful!

[@ManongChito]

Everything is perfect. Except for that hideous giant crown.

[@paulosouzasilva6517]

Maravilhosa interpretação. A melhor que tive a oportunidade de ver, Luciana Serra é simplesmente incomparavel.

[@alexfsans]

Há quem prefira a atuação de Diana Damrau. Procure. Eu tenho o DVD desta versão, com a Luciana Serra.

[@teresaclara281]

Que oportunidade incrivel!

[@ian.marais1202]

She is absolutely stunning.

[@TheZexal]

1:31 I didn't realize this is the song they used in Adventure Time for the episode "Food Chain."

[@gregholland11]

wow good catch

[@gregholland11]

kzbin.info/www/bejne/lWe9nJithJ5phbM link to the Adventure Time clip if anyone's interested

[@jorgelp1641]

no parece natural, no parecen cuerdas vocales, ella es simplemente superior

[@alfredocardenas69]

Wonderful! !!💙

[@SATANASHIA]

Que cosa tan hermosamente celestial.....de ángeles!!!!!

[@cobaltcanarycherry]

Serra or Deutekom? I love them both so much.

[@harvysoza1334]

Me too hehe

[@stellario82]

Supreme, it almost looks like a digital sound: unbelievably perfect. Really outstanding!

[@mondociaociao]

The absolute perfection.

[@nocilantro_gack]

My fave !!!!!

[@miuzefreak]

hey, mine too! : ) I ve been saying that for years!

[@wolfgangamadeusmozart585]

hermoso

[@Leanrosso]

Una gran cantante.

[@the_real_hislordship]

I have yet to find anyone else sing the notes so perfectly. Other performances are either sharp or flat. Luciana Serra in this performance is the most accurate.

[@piousaugustus84]

Lucia Popp and Cristina Deutekom

[@ΕΛΠΙΝΙΚΗΚΑΚΙΟΠΟΥΛΟΥ]

Roberta Peters

[@the_real_hislordship]

@@piousaugustus84 Not even close. They're also off the notes.

[@the_real_hislordship]

@@ΕΛΠΙΝΙΚΗΚΑΚΙΟΠΟΥΛΟΥ also no. She's off the notes and her German pronunciation is really bad.

[@nettiegurl]

Natalie Dessay

[@RedIsACrepe]

epic

[@luismanuel-tena]

Bravoooooooo

[@AlexandraChernyshova]

Outstanding 🌹🎶☀️

[@silwen9412]

- Насколько большая корона вам нужна? - Да.

[@stellacadente9838]

Wow

[@bobjohnson1633]

I'll take Lucia Popp every day

[@mynailfairy]

Best Soprano of All Time 😊

[@amazingsparckman]

nice :D

[@robertodellepiane9095]

Inimitabile!!!!

[@davidsantos8024]

Uau! The best interpretation! Beautiful! 😍

[@nettiegurl]

Natalie Dessay

[@sergiosanchezsanchez8712]

And Roberta Peters.

[@babydrane]

This is quite bad. No opera singer should have as white a tone as this. And why all this squeaking on the high notes?

[@coloraturaElise]

This is late in her career; it's what happens to the voice when you're older, that white sound. And you can hear how she struggles to keep up with the tempo. However, considering her age, there's still some amazing singing there....her triplets are so much better than 99% of people who sing this.

[@JuliaGrigorian123]

❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤Adoro la dignité come Regina della Notre! Anchio sono coloratura soprano. Se e possibile vorrebbe lavorare con Lei come maestra Anna Bartoli

[@bencagampang1688]

I liked the staccatos.. that's about it

[@antoniosalerno9554]

Ciao dall Italia

[@lotharwaltner4058]

Sauber!! 👍🎶👍👍

[@gabrielmouramorgado2483]

The best version

[@abinashmishra329]

I saw this version on pbs back in 1991

[@miriambarreras1530]

The singing is perfect. Serra is one of the greatest sopranos of all time. But for overall performance of the Queen of the anight, I prefer Diana Damrau. Not only is Damrau scary, but her clear and perfect pronunciation of the German lyrics makes a huge difference in my opinion.

[@butterfingers6015]

Well Diana Damrau is german

[@palmarolavlklingholm9684]

Wen you say it. Diana does have better pronunciation. But I like Lucia's voice better. Can't explain why.

[@francescomazzella5940]

No comparation in coloritura and powerful. Luciana Serra is perfect in german diction. The only part I prefer Diana Damrau is the psichological interpretation of the Queen like mother...

[@dukeofnyc68]

Sublime.

[@patrickstarczewski8637]

Profesional!

[@d.j.rosscarpediem921]

Brilliantly done!

[@daniel.Armando]

Luciana Serra Divine.

[@yuriykulagin]

❤❤❤❤❤❤❤

[@michaelmiller1215]

A rare Dramatic Coloratura! Flawless performance!

[@dougronald561]

She's more on the lyric coloratura end.

[@ben-hurjudha3648]

​@@dougronald561Does she has big voice?

[@dougronald561]

@@ben-hurjudha3648 no. I’d say not. But she’s nevertheless a fine performer and is near perfect for this role.

[@ben-hurjudha3648]

@@dougronald561 Ok that is natural. Very high voice come with splendid size of voice. Very rare to find large voice with extremely hig notes

[@dougronald561]

@@ben-hurjudha3648 yes that’s the issue. Dramatic sopranos tend to have a lower range than coloraturas.

[@91Orik]

лучшая!!!

[@artdanks]

Not bad. Not great either. But at least way better than Damrau!

[@miuzefreak]

then who would be your perfect and favorite queen of the night?

[@rondomagic]

@@miuzefreak Cristina Deutekom's vocals are great but the acting, not so much

[@bchaoui12]

they should've let Battle perform the role of the Queen, because the current lady rushed the mess outta this aria and failed to engage Battle, actively, because she was so focused on squeaking and squealing those notes out.... such a shame.

[@GpD79]

Couldn't disagree with you more!

[@PensadorProfundo42]

@Robert Lee, Countertenor Battle has sung many public high F#6, as well as a few high F6. Here is a high F: kzbin.info/www/bejne/eXuUnKeErbmafaM Here is a high F# in the opening cadenza: kzbin.info/www/bejne/mJC6q4h-jM5rhc0 Here is a very rare case in which she goes off-pitch, and after the first high E, she sings two high Fs: kzbin.info/www/bejne/fpqZdaaqqrKrbKc She never sang the queen of the night, as well as many other roles, because she said she only accepted roles she believed she could portray well, and that wouldn't hurt her voice. She turned down Mimi repeatedly.